access to. the jury and hostage crisis fate taliban is reportedly rise to twenty five well it suggested that france's mali intervention which provoked the terrorist attack is actually a resource grabbing operation. hundreds of friends and supporters of internet freedom activist aaron swartz gathered for his memorial with his family maintaining the computer prodigy was driven to suicide by prosecutors and a looming trial against him. and as pakistan agrees to dissolve parliament in the face of protest over corruption allegations in the capital r.t.

talks to the man behind the anti-government uproar. oh my from moscow where it's seven pm you're watching r t with me and you so now it's good to have you with us straight to our top story this hour and algeria is media is reporting that a number of hostages who died in the gas plant siege has risen to twenty five now it's expected to increase several foreign civilians were among those killed when algerian forces stormed the site taken by islamic militants in revenge for the french intervention in neighboring mali there are increasing fears though that the military campaign could backfire on paris well some analysts say there is more to it than meets the eye as probably boycott now reports. we don't always but it's

terrorism was about to overwhelm the friendly country the terrorism that threatens not just all of west africa but also the entire world. he's vowed that france won't stop its intervention in mali until islamic extremism in the country is stamped out the military has announced that it's going to be sending more troops but the total set to exceed two hundred thousand a stated goal to help the government in bamako drive out his list insurgents before the francois alarms talk of freedom and democracy critics say the french government you see as a for the military offensive could be linked to other elements u.a.d. of these fronts. many people say huge parts of it's a huge factor in its economy and it's something that not only mali but specifically niger and other neighboring parts where the tourist people reside. sits on top of almost every single light bulb in france runs on electricity generated by nuclear

power nuclear power relies on a steady flow of pure rainy and so you don't have to be a nuclear physicist to figure out that to keep all these bright lights on the french government depends on a steady flow of the precious natural resource but molly says micio learned it's not about power or money so that you know security this is nothing to do with any political issue from a different time if we are defending a government or business interests which government which business. some have their suspicions nationally supported approach energy company. is about to finish the second largest ukrainian mining plant in the world next to mali every year the cars do exactly this year is going to be very cheap there's a third world very cheap. france is playing

a very dangerous game and after the french military offensive reportedly sparked a deadly hostage crisis in algeria light bulbs are beginning to go off in the heads of ordinary citizens to pour out almost. i'm for intervention if it is to fight terrorism but it's got to be for good reasons i know that it's for raw materials that are in mali gas oil diamonds and gold already. they don't think about well we have made paris a huge target and france are a target for terrorism. at least but with the prospect of untapped natural resources needed to keep fronts eliminated political analysts say that francois promised to stop playing big brother to former colonies isn't going to be fulfilled anytime soon playboy can see paris. well britain stepped forward to

help the french intervention by providing cargo planes to transfer supplies through the war zone but journalist and broadcaster neil clark says one stance against islamist is inconsistent. what's happened here is that david cameron who spent most of last year cheering on islamist rebels in syria has now taken the line that islamist rebels in mali of the biggest dangers to the world and we must intervene must help france regardless of the consequences to britain and i think it's a very misguided policy unfortunately the political elite in britain seem to be all behind these policy issues it's very disturbing but i think the public speaking for the public i think we're very concerned about what's going on we think back to twenty and then when it was david cameron and william hague people like this who were the loudest most aggressive cheerleaders for the deposing of colonel gadhafi who was the biggest who work against al-qaeda in northern africa and now the very same people cameron in the hague are the ones saying we've got to get involved in the mali operation to try to put down al qaeda groups there and so there is a really consistency here real hypocrisy you know why is fighting ok africa is

these are the biggest cause why did we play such an active role and talk to the one leader in northern africa who actually was it was a form of it's ok. hundreds of people gathered in new york to pay their respects to aaron swartz an online freedom activist who hanged himself last week and the twenty six year old computer prodigy suicide came ahead of his trial for cyber crimes which could have resulted in him spending decades behind bars this week federal prosecutors dropped the charges against swartz his family and friends blame the government for his death and the study of turkana reports the crime downloading millions of academic papers in the public domain from a paid subscription database and the belief that they should be free. to essentially out too many books in the library the punishment facing thirty years behind bars and the million dollar fine but you're looking at a crime that essentially amounts to downloading p.d.'s to

a hard drive. no person was harmed there was no financial benefit murder received was punishment the result twenty six year old web wizard. aaron swartz takes his own life the idea that he was facing decades in jail is is just disgusting absolutely appalling and and now we've lost a tremendously valuable and talented human being while the plea bargain deal for only several months behind bars was reportedly a possible outcome the internet freedom crusader refused to be seen as a felon his family and supporters blame the prosecution's aggressive attempts to put swartz behind bars for his suicide this man a young man and his family were literally terrorized by the prosecutors and the judicial discretion that let this case go forward and not stop while authorities dubbed him a criminal supporter say he was

a robin hood in the fight for freedom of information aaron swartz was a prodigy at fourteen he helped write the are assessed specific ation an online syndication system that allows users to consolidate feeds from numerous blog sites automatically instead of having to check each website individually the program is now part of the common vocabulary of the internet and is used on a daily basis for publishing news stories from all over the world critics say u.s. officials wanted aaron sent down to set an example he was going up against policy and he knew it well but he thought he would be in the clear in the law because he was only spreading public domain documents instead swartz's case has made an example of how seriously the internet is regulated in the us the laws under which he was indicted did back to one thousand nine hundred eighty four many believe they're long outdated the prison sentences needed to be relaxed especially for supposed crimes like this where there was no economic motive where there was no way for him to profit even if they said even if he did all the things that they said

new legislation dubbed aarons law has been proposed in the u.s. congress it's still unclear whether there will be any real change but what is clear is that it once again took a tragedy to galvanize national debate and a hearty new york. pakistan's government and muslim cleric talk here contrary agreed on friday to bring it and to the mass protest in islamabad tens of thousands of his supporters ended a sit in against widespread corruption and unemployment after contrie convinced authorities to dissolve parliament in march now voting should take place within ninety days the government also agreed to discussions on a lecture over four hundred demand that the army help set up an interim administration was rejected another sign of deepening political crisis was the government's face off the court its order to arrest the prime minister over corruption allegations it was just minutes after rashi attack nationalist forum lobbying group says we're not seeing the other raveling of the existing political

system what we're basically seeing is that the democratic system of the country is in the throes of the final stages of collapse collapse under its under the weight of its own corruption collapse under the weight of its own incompetence so it's a major development it's important to remember that these demonstrations may not leave immediately to change or the immediate collapse the fall of the government itself but the process has a started it's a failed democratic system it's a small clique of elite politicians who are intermarried interrelated to each other through family marriages and so forth and they're divided in the using different parties to sort of divide the cake and of course indulge in massive corruption i think in the in the seventy year history of modern pakistan we've seen the most corrupt government ever in this short history of. anti

government slogans driven by the discontent over corruption and a lot of electoral system included calls for revolution or just spoke exclusively to the protest leader who told us exactly what he means. when i say revolution we should keep in your mind in egypt in tunis in libya and all these countries there will need to be dictatorship for years and years for a long time. and the people stood up against that in iran there was when eric here rule of shan shah the people stood up against their. party stanek is bit different there is no one else rule neither monera killed nor a military dictatorship here is electoral authority to regain its electoral dictatorship true democracy does not exist in this society neither in political field nor in social field nor in economically law democracy so this is

a law lessness total chaos and anarchy in this country government is totally dysfunctional. saw that this is the single nation single country in the whole muslim world having a nuclear capability and if the same situation continues that would be a very big disaster if we could come to the level of collapse so out of this martin movement is anti corruption to educate our society from corruption and this is need of the whole muslim world the whole third world and developing muslim countries the have to get rid of corruption and corrupt leaders. it's twelve minutes past the hour still to come on the program to windowing support as israelis are to head to the polls tuesday we look into why the country's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is losing to many of his former voters.

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here with our live from moscow israel will elect its part of the meant in two days' time and prime minister benjamin netanyahu is predicted to come out on top yet many israelis today don't think he's being radical enough argues publish their reports why many of netanyahu is right wing allies are changing their minds. he's the surprise success story in campaign one twin millionaire who says a palestinian state would be suicide for israel naftali bennett used to work for prime minister netanyahu but now he's working at taking supporters away from him like this man who used to be

a diehard supporter of netanyahu so he could party until these elections rolled around the likud is. a bus full of right wing members of knesset with a left wing person driving the bus as far as being i mean. even though i am opposed to a state. i would say most members of the likud obviously when a minute is for it the irony is that while the world sees netanyahu as a right wing media at home he's losing face among supporters for not being focused enough this is part of the right wing campaign he's up against there are some things we all know will never happen and the sopranos will never return for another season. pro and a peace agreement with the palestinians will not happen promises like this have been a jewish home party in food position it's poised to take more than twelve percent of parliamentary seats analysts say netanyahu while still expected to serve another

term is running scared he's up his refrain i say in the most clear of terms the western wall is not occupied territory i don't care what the un says we will build in jerusalem because it's our right not on your hands we could list has grown even more right when with ready cars like this woman high up in the pecking order. but then the league would be taken apart it is a party with values the state of israel is a state of the jews whose internal capital is jerusalem. but what will be the implications of such rhetoric after the elections many israelis are asking themselves. about the day after will netanyahu become move right-wing and risk to join israel into conflicts with its neighbors or will he back down and risk losing face among his supporters. is hoping for the latter that netanyahu will listen to world opinion and reach a compromise with the palestinians he knows all too well what the current cycle of

violence can bring speakers daughter was killed in a suicide bombing seventeen years ago in the. we don't have unfortunately in the center and the left a leader who is significantly charismatic to lead this country and give its people hope the left is also divided but i do think you know who will find a way to compromise because of world pressure but that compromise won't come easy enough to the bennett solution to the israeli palestinian conflict is to annex most of the west bank while allowing palestinians a limited self rule in the west and while that might not seem a possible idea to most of the international community it's exactly what his constituency wants to hear a fact in a time yahoo is acutely aware of policy r.t. television. well the election campaign in israel is drawing to an end but if israelis were to cast their votes today let's take a look at how the knesset could possibly turnout we're just going to show you the

favorites here the top three men you know who is part of the front runners in the party predicted to get some thirty four seats as you can see in blue and red the labor party predicted to get seventeen seats now the far right jewish home run by israel's rising political star and netanyahu is former ally we just heard about him from paula expected to get thirteen seats you can see here in green that's ten more than they had in the last elections while the remaining slots will of course go to other minor parties r.t. will closely follow this election the twenty second of january this tuesday giving you in-depth coverage. how will tension with to run develop will settle to explode just isolate john there be peace with god. what's next in relations with america religion you know who survived his snuff election on january twenty second . israel saw it's one or two. it's coming up to nineteen

minutes past the hour still to come here on r t lucky to be alive a man survives after falling moving train half naked in the middle of a freezing find beery in forest find out more in just a couple of minutes. when barack obama will officially begin his second presidential term on sunday when he takes the oath of office at the white house he's expected to paint the prospects of the next four years and pledge to deliver on some promises that he so far honestly failed to keep well for more let's not talk to us democratic strategist robert wiener he joins us live on the line from washington thanks for being with us this sunday now that obama doesn't have to worry about getting reelected will we actually see him for phil some of his mass promises. it's good to be with you you know that's one of the myths is that he hasn't fulfilled promises he had

a roosevelt's first term i purposely wore my tie that has franklin roosevelt all over it because when you consider what he did he brought in health care for the first time in the united states to join the rest of the world he ended the two wars in iraq and he's ending afghanistan and he saved the economy from from the abyss and brought the u.s. car industry back to number one in the world and brought the whole financial industry back into into repute and save the reputation of the united states in world foreign policy those are enormous enormous achievements now he does have challenges we have to get gun violence in the bay and soon the united states we must do what he said which is to have an assault ban to have magazine clip capacities to have background checks we must do those things but in addition we have immigration we have continuing the economy you have making sure that the republicans don't totally obliterate the health care achievement and try to take

the money from social security and medicare so there are enormous things we have to create jobs in the united states over the republican obstructionism so there are challenges he will address those in his state of the union address but you're actually correct most people think that the swearing in is tomorrow in fact in an hour and a half in the blue room in the white house the president out of state and the vice president will be sworn in for meeting all of these challenges in the second term that's right it's going to be a private ceremony on monday will see a much more public ceremony more for so of that inauguration but what about the promises that clearly they're out in the cold watching below the stage and staring at the president and you clear that you clearly think obama has done a very good job in his first term what about critics who say that nevertheless promises like closing guantanamo bay have not been fulfilled will we see him act more and have less of his energy wasted on those kind of partisan fights per se the

fiscal cliff or getting gun control under way. well that's such a minor thing closing guantanamo the fact is that he has succeeded against al qaeda in more than people's wildest dreams that's one of his enormous achievements is that he got bin laden bush failed to get bin laden bush tried to do it by farming it out obama use the sophisticated united states and challenged apparatus and got him so i wouldn't worry about closing guantanamo that's a republican toy they want to put that on obama's head and not let him have an achievement they're minors it's a minor thing there are prisons all over the world that are that are open in their prisons united states where we can have terrorists come and they've been very successful in those if we were to close guantanamo we would simply take the terrorists and put them in the united states prisons where we had the oklahoma city bombers and we had every every which terrorist and certainly robert there is present my all over the world when i met our very many allies this country is a human rights activist and human rights triumphs while having places like one ton

and what about the double standards there. i don't disagree with you the president wants to close guantanamo let's go forward i'm sure russia doesn't want to have problems going on in chechnya but we go forward so things happen that you must have a bigger and a broader view about so you are correct the fiscal cliff is real i wrote the lead off it the lead story in the washington times grappling on the fiscal cliff i praised the republicans for allowing the vote to stop the fiscal cliff but you know they do it's one after the other after the other and there is no fiscal cliff there's only a fiscal cliff if the earth is flat and the earth isn't flat the reality is that that that is a self created problem by the republicans there has never been a stop of the debt ceiling before and they want to threaten it to stop programs the constitution says that the president united states can and must pay the debt of the united states that you shall not challenge the debt of the united states and paying the bills that is

a non issue veronica i mean. veronica invited me thanks veronica other than that of the nine are you going to have to end i don't know anything under three certainly on two things obama has many challenges to face in his second term and one of them probably the biggest are the republicans robert wiener live with us on the line from washington thanks for that thanks so much. now a train journey took a bizarre twist in rural russia this week on mt survived after falling out of a carriage but that's not it he was barely dressed for a night in freezing siberian forest earlier tom barton told me how the man managed to make it out of the woods alive. forty two for larry malcolm of who here is a long haul lorry driver was one of the passengers on this train pretty clocking its way through the forest in russia's far east during the night he goes for a cigarette he goes to the vestibule at the end of the carriage smokes his cigarette and then he goes to to come back to his cabin and he opens the wrong door

he say's and rather than going back to the part of the carriage he falls out of the back of the train onto the tracks and into the forest at night and the train speeding away into the distance he then begins to run but he rapidly realizes he's not just running to try and catch the train he's running for his very life we managed to get hold of ourselves earlier here's what he had to say when i fell out i only had parents slippers and t. shirt i ran for seven kilometers i didn't curse minute tap and i just saw the train was gone so i came quickly to my senses and started running so that i didn't freeze i ran on the railway track for about twenty or thirty minutes when i go to the nearest station their eyes popped out after they saw a man with almost no clothes on women there quickly gave me two and reported what just happened i didn't tell this to anybody my wife found out about the incident only after journalists called her. so i would imagine that he got

a rather difficult phone call from his wife but i think he's ok he's back at work now there is it will be an investigation into perhaps one of the train guards had left the door at the end of the train unlocked which was a bit of an oversight apart from that's all ok we have covered a story recently you could hear is having a big problem lately with lots of wolves there so perhaps another motivation for him to run rather fast to try and get back to that train. up next here in artsy an insight into the bloody rivalry between america's two most notorious criminal gang stay with us. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize

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